section Medicinal Mushrooms
In Dongying opened a special market for the sale of this type of fungi that illegally harvested in the Russian territories. In Shanghai, the mushrooms are packaged and taken to Japan or to the West at a price that is much superior to the original, ie the price at which the smugglers pass these mushrooms, which are - Japanese call "matsutake" and in Chinese "sunzhun".
The most interesting is that these Chinese mushrooms exported always (even in Soviet times!), And all for one simple reason: blewits shod toadstool considered ordinary, not worth attention. And if the detained Chinese-pilferers with ginseng, musk deer jet or bear paws, and it was considered contraband, the Chinese with any number of cherished "sunzhuna" passed quietly.
And all because the only 1989 year mycologists gave good (!) To the workpiece blewits booted, that is, recognized its good edible mushrooms! Finally, in the year 2002 blewits shod brought in the Red Book of Primorye and only because of this began to arrest the smugglers with these fungi. Although, in truth, a delay of one hundred Chinese. In other markets in China have been closed ...
Matsutake - what looks like a Japanese delicacy?
On estimates of location. Only with a larger cap and a chunky leg.
What matsutake It resembles honey agaric, explains the fact that many authors, amateurs call it "tree fungus." This is not so - blewits not grow on stumps, they grow on sandy soils in symbiosis with pine trees. Therefore blewits booted can be seen not only in the Far East and Siberia, but also in Pskov, Kaliningrad, Leningrad region. That is where there is a light sandy soil and pine.
Matsutake, like our usual white mushroom, is different depending on the area where it grows. The most valuable fungus grows in Primorye - it is large, hard and most fragrant. Appreciate the Japanese and Canadian matsutake. Korean and Chinese cost several times less, because they do not have enough rich taste and little-expressed mushroom smell. In addition, the price of matsutake depends on the age of the fungus. Appreciate the young nerazpustivshiesya mushrooms - with tight-fitting bonnet. Gourmets and connoisseurs sing out 11 categories of matsutake. The first elite belongs to the coastal Russian fungi, which have not yet reached adulthood.
The fact that the Japanese incredibly value these mushrooms both in cooking and in medicine was understood and used by the Americans before anyone else. They began to industrially procure these wild mushrooms for export to Japan. 15-20 years ago, picking matsutake in the forests of the northwestern United States was compared to the "gold rush". A kilo of mushrooms cost up to $ 200. Thousands of people went to the forests for seasonal work. The same was soon observed in Canada. Americans soon appreciated the culinary benefits of the delicate mushroom, which exudes the aroma of pine needles and pears, and became seriously addicted to matsutaka.
There are many recipes for matsutake (from clear soup to roasted on coals hats under the citrus sauce). Grilled matsutake - very expensive. Basically, it is used as a supplement to garnish.
The healing properties of matsutake
In oriental medicine matsutake is considered the most powerful anti-cancer agent in the blood diseases. Chinese healers claim that the greatest healing power matsutake have 48 in the first hours after collection, that's when it can have a therapeutic effect in leukemia. During this time, it should be eaten raw or cut into thin slices, or dried at a temperature no higher than 50 degrees. Mushrooms gathered for this purpose - the most expensive, the price can go up to several thousand dollars per kilogram.
Mature mushrooms - with open caps - have no such value, and are used in medicine as a preventive anticancer agent and means for deducing radionuclides and carcinogens from the body. Repeatedly noted that the powder is able to destroy viruses matsutake (Japanese during the influenza epidemic actively take capsules with medicinal mushrooms matsutake and shiitake).
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